Adjustable guide for winding machines



- I 1,643,914 p 1927' s. F. ALBACH, JR

ADJUSTABLE GUIDE FOR WINDING MACHINES 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR George JZZbachJZ ATTORNEY Sept 1927' G. F. A LBACH, JR V ADJUSTABLE GUIDE FOR WINDING MACHINES Filed Jan. 25. 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I v INVENTOR nmzsse; 6 flifiqchfir I I W BY QQZ;44' /9164 w Y i a: v ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 27, 1927.

' 1,543,914 PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE FRED ALBACEI, JB., 9F BAYONNE, NEW' JERSEY, ASSIGHUR T SCIIW'ARZEN- EACH-HUBER 00., OF UNION CITY, NEVT'JERSEY, A GORPGEATION 01" NEXV JERSEY.

ADJUSTABLE GUIDE FOR \VINDING MACHINES.

. Application filed January 25, 1927. Serial No. 163,4 7.-

Thisinvention relates to guides for winding machines and has for an object to provide an improved construction wherein the various guides of the machine may be inclependently adjusted.

Another object of the invention is to provide in a Winding machine, thread or yarn guides for each spool with means for independently adjusting each guide without interfering with the longitudinal adjustment and movement of the respective guides.

A further object, more specifically, is to provide independently adjustable guides for winding machines wherein a screw member is utilized for causing 'a desired back and forth adjusting movement for individually and accurately adjusting each guide.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a view partly in section and partly in elevation of a portion of the winding machine with guides embodylng the invention applied thereto.

Figure '2 is an enlarged top plan view of part of the winding machine shown in Fig ure 1, said view illustrating the position and certain parts of the structure of the guides.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale through Figure 1, approximately on' line 33.

Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view through Figure '3 on line l4. Figure 5 is an enlarged plan view of the upper guide shown in Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a sectional view through Figure 5 on line 66.

Referring to the accompanying drawing by numerals, 1 indicates the frame of a winding machine of any desired kind, said winding machine having the usual arrangement of reels 2, spool supporting members 3 and a and rails 5 and 6 adapted to carry the respective guides '7 and 8. The rails 5 and 6 are old and well known and in machines of this type are adjustable longitudinally and also are movable back and forth longitudinally so as to guide the thread as it is wound on the respective spools. In the accompanying drawings, only one set of guides has been shown but it will be understood that there is usually a large number of identically formed guides and adjusting means for each guide.

In practice, it has been found that a preliminary winding spool 9 is suflicient for most but where some very accurate weaving ifs te be done, the spool 9, after it has been wound, is moved up to occupy the position of spool 10 and the yarn thereon is rewound onto spool 11. This practice is well known and the rewinding on spool 11 isto more accurately-lay the yarn in position on the spool so that when used it will feed out in a more even manner. This rewinding is really necessary only because of the slight incorrect positlon of the respective guides 7 as heretofore used. Heretofore, these guides v rect position and, consequently, the winding on the spool 9 will not desired. I V

The guide 7 is provided with the usual porcelain guiding member 15 having a guid ing notch 16 of usual construction. In'the present invention, the porcelain and the members 13 and 14, together with the conbev as accurate as necting section 17, are all carried by a plate 18 substantially V-shaped in cross section as shown in Figure 4. This plate carries one or more guiding pins 19 which have enlarged heads 20 operating in suitable grooves in the bar 5 and overlapping part of the plate 21. The plate 21 is held in place by screws 22 or in any other desired manner. At one end, plate 22 is provided with an upstanding flange or stop 23, said flange being preferably formed with a thickened portion 24 and said thickened portion and the flange being provided with a threaded bore 25 accommodating the screw 26. The screw 26 is provided with a thumb member 27 at one end whereby it may be freely rotated in either direction. At the opposite end a reduced portion 28 extends through an aperture 29 in the 'up standing flange 30 of plate 18. By providing the reduced portion 28 in the screw member 26, a shoulder 31 is formed which bears against flange 30 for forcing the flange andplate 18 in one direction when the serew 26 is rotated in the proper direc ion; A 32 is mounted on the testes... portion loo 28 and a pin or stop 33 extends through the reduced portion 28 or is carried thereby so as to act as an abutment functioning in the opposite direction to the shoulder 31. It will thus be seen that when the screw 26 is turned in one direction, flange 30, plate 18, porcelain 15 and associated parts will move toward flange 23 independently of the movement of the bar 5. When the screw member 26 is rotated in the opposite direction, an opposite independent movement of these parts takes place so that the porcelain 15 with the notch 16 may be adjusted indepeir ently of bar 5 and this adjustment may be very accurate by reason of the movement of the screw 26.

The guide 8 and associated parts are shown in detail in Figures 5 and 6. From these views it will be observed that the guide 8 is provided with what is known as a pigtail 34 and this pigtail is connected with a rod 35 having an enlargement 86 which is threaded onto the screw member 37, which screw member 37 is carried by the upstanding end flanges 38 and 39 of the plate 40, which plate is secured to the rod 6 by screws 41 or other means. The screw member 37 is provided with a reduced portion 42 and with shoulders 43 and 44 whereby when this screw is operated by the thumb member 45 it will cause the pigtail 34k and associated parts to move longitudinally of bar 6 and independ ently thereof whereby an independent adjustment of this guide may be had at any time. In order to prevent any swinging or loose motion of the pigtail 34, the enlargement 86 at the lower part is provided with a flat surface 46 which is engaged by a spring 47 rigidly secured to the plate by a suitable rivet 48. This spring as shown in Figure 6, tends to swing upwardly and, consequently, holds the enlargement 36 and associated parts in any position in whichthey are left while permitting a free hack and forth movementof the enlargement 36 and pigtail 34.

What I claim is: r

In a winding machine, a reciprocating guide supporting rail substantially V-shaped in cross section, a substantially V-shaped plate rigidly secured to said rail, said plate having an upstanding end and a pair of slots near the opposite end to said upstanding end, said upstanding end having a threaded aperture extending therethrough, a substantially V-shaped sliding plate, mounted on the first mentioned plate, said sliding plate having an upstanding end formed with an ape'rture'therein, a screw member fitted into said threaded aperture extending through the aperture in the upstanding end of the sliding plate, means on the screw member for maintaining the screwrmember in operative relation with the slidingplate whereby as the screw member is rotated the sliding plate will be moved, said screw member and sliding plate being positioned to be moved longitudinally of said rail, a guide pin for each of said slotscarried by said sliding plate and projecting through the respective slots, each of said pins having an enlarged head, underlapping the firstmentioned plate for holding the platestogether while allowlng a sliding movement thereof, 1

a thread guiding member mounted on said sliding plate, and means for removably securing the thread guiding member on said sliding plate.

GEORGE FRED ALBAOH, Jr- 

